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<TD WIDTH="245" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="3" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"><B>'Lower Decks'</B><BR><BR><FONT SIZE="3">(Story Code 267)<BR>by René Echevarria<BR>Story by Ronald Wilkerson<BR>and Jean Louise Matthias</TD>
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Crew evaluations are in progress on the <I>U.S.S. Enterprise</I>, causing concern for four junior officers, Nurse Alyssa Ogawa; Ensign Sam Lavelle; Ensign Sito Jaxa, a Bajoran; and Ensign Taurik, a Vulcan. While the four friends meet in Ten Forward, Commander Riker and Counselor Troi discuss candidates for the Ops position on a certain shift; when both Sito's and Lavelle's names are mentioned, Ben, a waiter, passes the information along to his friends, causing even more tension amongst the group. Later that day, Lavelle and Sito take part in a stations drill, but Sito makes a mistake, much to her annoyance; in Engineering, Taurik fails to impress Lieutenant LaForge with his new computer simulation; while in Sickbay, Ogawa is pleased to learn from Doctor Crusher that she is to be recommended for promotion. Some time later, the <I>Enterprise</I> arrives in the Argaya system and takes up a waiting position; an escape pod is eventually detected, but it lies fifty-thousand kilometres inside Cardassian space. While Captain Picard and his senior officers work on a way to retrieve the occupant without crossing the border, the Engineering team attempt to improve the range of the transporter system; however, when Taurik tries to identify the life form inside, he is ordered to stop by LaForge; and as Sickbay prepares to receive the unidentified occupant, Ogawa is told to leave by Doctor Crusher. The four friends are both intrigued and worried over the strange events, and they speculate on what could be happening. They have no way of foretelling that these mysterious events will lead to the death of one of their number… 

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Patrick Stewart (<B>Captain Jean-Luc Picard</B>), Jonathan Frakes (<B>Commander William Thomas Riker</B>), LeVar Burton (<B>Chief Engineer Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge</B>), Michael Dorn (<B>Security Chief Lieutenant Worf</B>), Gates McFadden (<B>Doctor Beverly Crusher</B>), Marina Sirtis (<B>Councelor Deanna Troi</B>), Brent Spiner (<B>Lieutenant Commander Data</B>), Dan Gauthier (<B>Lavelle</B>), Shannon Fill (<B>Sito</B>), Alexander Enberg (<B>Torak</B>), Bruce Beatty (<B>Ben</B>), Patti Yasutake (<B>Ogawa</B>), Don Reilly (<B>Joret</B>)

<BR><BR><B>Directed by Gabrielle Beaumont
<BR>Produced by Ronald D. Moore and Peter Lauritson
<BR>Co-Produced by Brannon Braga
<BR>Executive Producers Jeri Taylor, Michael Piller and Rick Berman
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<BR>7th February, 1994

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<BR>*Featuring Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Commander William Thomas Riker, Chief Engineer Lieutenant Geordi La Forge, Security Chief Lieutenant Worf, Doctor Beverly Crusher, Councelor Deanna Troi and Lieutenant Commander Data 

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